On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:15:11 +0000, tony sayer
wrote:

In article , Bill Wright
scribeth thus

"Doctor D" wrote in message
...
I bought one and pointed it due north from my location about 30 miles
south of Sutton Coldfield. It's very good, bringing in about 100 channels
(some duplicates) but also stations from Shropshire and beyond, for which
we are well outside the service area.

The Birmingham stations are all "off the scale" whereas previously on the
internal rod antenna they weren't even being decoded.

Interesting.

Bill



Not really. The difference an outside aerial makes from an indoor bit of
wire is very significant. A while ago I was playing about with a Denon
tuner in a Suffolk town not renowned for its signals, even mobile which
can be quite good. An ordinary vertical FM di-pole @ 10 MAGL made the
band come alive!..

If everyone were to use the right aerial then we could drop the ERP's by
a lot and therefore "save the planet" i.e. bailing out the titanic with
a teaspoon!...

I also found that slighly moving a DAB aerial can make or break
reception. I was getting nothing on Cambridge DAB, then I moved the
DAB aerial down the mast about 12 inches and signal shot up to 80%.

Marky P.